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When he learned his senior year of high school would be happening on a computer, it didnt take long for Jalen Walker to lose the motivation to keep his grades up. "I was very behind. I wasnt even bothering to open my computer," said the 18-year-old, who attends Eastmoor Academy High School. "I didnt adjust well." He credits IMPACT Community Action, a South Side nonprofit group that is helping students navigate online schooling, with helping him regain his confidence. Walker has passed onli...

Western is responding to growing demand for more flexible options in higher education by offering three new fully online undergraduate programs in the College

As the United States and its schools enter the second year of the COVID-19 pandemic, policymakers, educators, and families are struggling to address everything from learning loss among K-12 students to new pressures befalling the country’s nearly 7 million adult learners. Increasingly, they are narrowing in on an old, but potentially now groundbreaking, intervention: tutoring.  There is a bipartisan push for expanding tutoring in schools, whether through a new national “tutoring corps,”...

As the United States and its schools enter the second year of the COVID-19 pandemic, policymakers, educators, and families are struggling to address everything from learning loss among K-12 students to new pressures befalling the country’s nearly 7 million adult learners. Increasingly, they are narrowing in on an old, but potentially now groundbreaking, intervention: tutoring.  There is a bipartisan push for expanding tutoring in schools, whether through a new national “tutoring corps,”...

-48:53 Cancel America’s Student Loan Debt! But How? It’s a trillion-dollar crisis that’s crippling the economy and dooming millions of college graduates. So what’s the fairest way to fix it? Wednesday, March 10th, 2021 jane coaston Today on The Argument, imagine if we wiped away every American’s student loan debt. Should we? The cost of higher education in America has skyrocketed in recent decades. And so have the student loans to pay for it. Americans are carrying more...

Black students are faring far worse during the pandemic than others, new test data out of Ohio show, with COVID-19’s disruptions setting them back as much as a half year’s worth of learning and widening longstanding racial achievement gaps. The results of Ohio’s fall 2020 third grade reading tests offer a dire warning on the damage the pandemic could inflict on students across the country, particularly minority students. “We are seeing existing inequalities grow before our eyes,” said...

Temple University graduate Ewan Johnsons mother borrowed so he could go to college. Growing up in a small town near Trenton, N.J., Ewan Johnson said there were birthdays when his mother couldnt afford to buy presents for him and his sister, but she did her best by baking cookies. There were times when she worked overtime in her job helping people with disabilities. “I come from a low economic background. Going to college was literally my only way out,” Johnson says. But like many students,...

Dan Goldhaber is the Director of the Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research (CALDER, caldercenter.org) at the American Institutes for Research and the Director of the Center for Education Data & Research (CEDR, cedr.us) at the University of Washington. Both CALDER and CEDR use administrative data to do research that informs decisions about policy and practice. ​ Dans work focuses on issues of educational productivity and reform at the K-12 level, including the broad ar...

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Report: In-person learning not linked to significant COVID-19 transmission, dependent on community spread December 23, 2020 10:54 AM Olivia Roberts Updated: To what extent does in-person schooling contribute to the spread of COVID-19? As local school districts grapple with this question, a new study conducted by researchers at the Center for Education Data and Research, the National Center for Analysis of Longitudinal data in Education Research and the Education Policy...